[rhelv6-beta-list] K3B -- won't burn small ISO to DVD media

[ronald.pucul at l-3com.com]

I just gave Brasero a try and it burned the small ISO to the DVD. Thanks
for the suggestion.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Justin Clift [mailto:jclift at redhat.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 5:39 PM
> To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (Santiago) Beta releases discussion
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> Cc: Pucul, Ronald E. @ SSG - Link
> Subject: Re: [rhelv6-beta-list] K3B -- won't burn small ISO to DVD
> media
> 
> On 10/26/2010 03:41 AM, ronald.pucul at l-3com.com wrote:
> > I tried to use K3B to burn a small ISO (237MB) to DVD-R writable
> media.
> >
> > K3B would not burn it to that DVD media I had.  It said to insert
> > writable CD media.
> >
> > Saving the few cents (if that) on the CD vs. DVD media caused me to
> > drive to/from a local Wally-World costing me more than a few cents
in
> > transportation cost as well as time.
> >
> > Seems the selection of media should be for the lowest capacity
CD/DVD
> > media required upward to whatever the highest capacity media is that
> > the drive supports, defaulting to the lowest capacity required.
> 
> Ouch, just took a look, and it's even worse than that.  If you start
up
> k3b in a machine with no CD/DVD drive installed (ie for creating .iso
> images files with), it only allows creation of CD .iso sized image
files.
> 
> From memory, older versions of k3b had separate options for choosing
> a data "DVD" project, vs a data "CD" project.  Seems like they merged
> the capability, extremely badly. :(
> 
> Did you try with with something like Brasero, the Gnome version of
k3b?
> 
> Justin Clift